PURPLE MACHINE Tribute to Deep Purple

Don't miss this rock'n roll tribute to Deep Purple live on stage at the Box for one night only!
Who's Who in the Band....
 
Mike Luciano:
New York City session drummer for legendary studio power station, Hit Factory, Pure Platinum work for for Grammy award-winning producers Bernard Edwards, Bill Laswell, Jeff Bova, Jason Jason corsaro . Searching for such artists as Billy Squire, Eddie Martinez from Robert Palmer's band , trixter. Pete Loran. Also played in trixter 94 through 98 national tour and with other bands such as Dive Bar stalkers.
Steve Richards-Keyboards
Accent': Corperate Events Variety Overtime: Corporate Events Variety Cornerstone: Dance and Classic Rock Buried Alive: Classic Rock Covers Main Street: Classic Rock Covers Cereal Killers: Classic Rock Covers Almost Styx: A Tribute to the music of Styx
 
Michael May, 
Singer, born 3/31/67 in Springfield Ma. Professional musician for 30 yrs. nominated for 3 Tampa Bay music awards including best singer, has a film credit for original music and score in a motion picture. Currently teaching voice and guitar at Seminole Music and sound.
 
Steve Galvin
Steve grew up in the the Boston area playing the suburban club circuit with a band called Crossroads. He was also a product specialist for ARP Instruments who relocated him to Los Angeles to be their west coast rep for their guitar synthesizer. He traveled the entire western United States performing clinics at music stores to demonstrate the capabilities of guitar synthesis.
After a couple of years with Oberheim Electronics and their sucessful line of synthesizers he opened a music store in Manhattan Beach while also performing original music at most of the music venues in LA like the Roxy, Whiskey, Gazzarri's and the Troubadour with a band called Bloodshot and another called Untamed.
He has also been a sound editor for over 50 feature films and for the past 15 years has been providing the recordings and playing all the musical parts for the toy industry. His recordings are found in countless pieces of musical plush toys and feature various local singers.
 
Rafaello Tazmaco Siacca:
Is a veteran Cuban Rock Bassist born in Santiago De Cuba 1954. 'Taz' as he is now mostly known as, started playing in his teens in 1968. Taz left Cuba in 1972 and headed to L.A, Seattle , and Phoenix, Az. Taz then moved to the New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey Tri-state area in 1975. In New York he was hired by the Charles St. Paul Showband. Taz toured the US, Canada, The Carribean ,and So. America all through the 70s. In the 80s ,Taz resettled in in the Jersey tri-state area and played locally in MTV type Rock bands. In the mid 80s, Taz moved to Tampa ,Florida. Taz played in numerous Rock bands in the 80s. Most notably was Earl Brown's Crosstown Band. Crosstown became singer Marty Balin's (Jefferson Airplane) back -up band for one tour ,with Eddy Money in the early 90s. In the early 2000s ,Taz was called out of retirement to play with the 'Trunk Band' an Allman Bros. tribute act. After a few years ,The Trunk Band disbanded and Taz just played around locally, and recording projects in Florida and Georgia. Taz's Rock influences come from Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Led Zep, Sabbath, Deep Purple, Grand Funk, Mountain ,and most hard Rock Power Trios. Taz's bass stlye is fusion of Jazz, Hard Rock ,Latin, and R&B.